Art of Noise - Close (To The Edit) Version 1 (ZTPS 01)

(C) ZTT Records 1984. Directed by Zbigniew Rybczynski. A ZTT original, ZTPS 01, released 01 May 1984.

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[PullMyPeeper]

There was a tall negro in my neighborhood who used to put a refrigerator box down on the ground and spin around to this song. He wore black puma sweats with 2 red stripes down the side of the arms and the pant legs. He smoked Kool menthols. He wore a shower cap all day long. He was my father.

[Lashid4u]

People don't realize this, but their music was very much hip-hop - in fact, alot of these European groups did early hip-hop music - people think that hip-hop is just rap, but, actually, songs like "Beat Box" by Art of Noise, "Rockit" by Herbie Hancock, and songs by Man Parrish, Kraftwerk, Afrika Baambata & Hasim were the earlier songs of the 80s that B-boys would "break" dance to - BEFORE rap dominated the hip-hop culture.

[xbox360fan07]

1 word WTF

[TheSerenity63]

Thnx for the post ....been a long time ...lol

[navbuoy]

OK, I'm old enough to know about this band (and getting my tail handed to me trying to 'pop' to this back in the day). Songs like these were absorbed into the culture.

Is Art of Noise a hip hop band? Of course not!

But did they influence Hip Hop? Of course they did.

Their influences were felt across the music scene. That's what they did - cross boundaries and pushed limits. Every decade had its innovators - Art of Noise was definitely one of them.

[TriGGletyRidesAgain]

Hip Hop used many older records at first for beats n breaks. To rap over.

Yes we all know Kraftwerk was used a lot, then James Brown samples.

The Art Of Noise is NOT hip hop or rap.

[TriGGletyRidesAgain]

@Lashid4u Totally WRONG. Hip hop has NOTHING to do with The Art Of Noise.

How old are you? You best be born in the 60s or 70s to know about this music.

Rap artists ( I wont use LL Cool J) are fringe bands/acts like TAOFN were all using the same technology, electronic instruments, but TAOFN was making totally different music.

[Lashid4u]

@TriGGletyRidesAgain Perhaps you need to learn some music history - or, at least the history of music that derived, primarily, from black culture (i.e. rap, hip-hop, house, electro-funk)

[Lashid4u]

@TriGGletyRidesAgain First of all, you used LL Cool J as an example - not good, in making this comparison ...WHY? Because LL was part of Def Jam, and in my opinion, Def Jam changed the sound of hip-hop music, or, rather, rap music ...Def Jam tried so hard to separate rap from any form of R&B, or disco, which is what made the change - no more electro-funk, synthesized sounds ...just "beats", pre-recorded guitar riffs & samples, like in Run DMCs songs...

[meeces13]

@trevinboy so youve always been the same bore. congrats

[pillowtheory]

@Lashid4u DOES know his history. Not sure what the other guy is trying to say. Sure a bunch of people used the same drum machines back then but so did Depeche Mode and OMD lol. But they weren't funky. Beat Box & Close To The Edge are early hip hop classics like Planet Rock or Trans Europe Express. All those tracks have more in common with LL Cool J then OMD. B-boys would break to these songs! People who fail to realize this don't know hip hop (or their music history). Google it haha!!!

[TriGGletyRidesAgain]

@Lashid4u No no no silly fool. The same drums machines were used. It was all new technology that people were using in different ways. Yes, LL Cool J had the same drum machine as the Art Of Noise. but they were making different music.

Please, know your music history.